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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

@enum@chaos.social on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.

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2024 Reading Goal

40% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 20 of 50 books.

Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group) 3 stars

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

‘Sire,’ he said, ‘among Europeans, the savagery of the French is exceeded only by the cruelty of the Dutch. The English are at present a backward race, but it is my guess, though many of my countrymen would disagree with me, that they may end up being the worst of the whole bunch, and the map of half the world may be coloured pink’

Victory City by  (Page 38)

anyone wants to be offended?

Wendy Heard: The Kill Club (Paperback, 2019, MIRA Books) 5 stars

Wie beim Wichteln...

5 stars

... aber statt anderen Geschenke zu besorgen, erledigst du ihren Mord für sie - und dafür kümmert sich jemand anderes um deinen. Und so gerätst du niemals in Verdacht, weil Motiv und Gelegenheit nie übereinstimmen. Was kann da nur schieflaufen? Jedenfalls war es verdammt schwer, dieses Buch zwischendurch auch mal aus der Hand zu legen um zu schlafen...

Dahlia Adler: Going Bicoastal (Hardcover, 2023, St. Martin's Press) 4 stars

Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home …

Multi-track drifting

4 stars

This is a funny concept: The chapters play in two parallel timelines - one where Natalya stays in New York, and one where she goes to Los Angeles for the summer. The subtitle is "There's more than one path to happily ever after", and that's exactly what the book represents. However, both timelines are a little too straightforward, and seen individually, they wouldn't make an interesting story. It really is this multi-timeline-drifting approach that makes it an entertaining book.

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Godslayers (2023, Square Fish) 3 stars

« Okay. So. I have been incredibly mean to my characters. »

3 stars

This is a sentence from the Acknowledgements, and I'm glad she acknowledges it. Because, twin hells, you have been incredibly mean to your characters. And that made the book really hard to enjoy, unlike its predecessor, even if it's written in the same spirit. In Eris's words: « Absolutely rot ».

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Godslayers (2023, Square Fish) 3 stars

Nova untangles from her, green eyes looking back, hair a blond tangle on the rug fibers, and says, the first thing she has spoken in weeks: “I want one.” [a tattoo] June turns to bury her smile in Arsen's shoulder. Theo buries his in Arsen's other one. Eris smiles, too, a tender thing. “A gear, love?” “No,” Nova says seriously. “I want a smiley face. On my face.” Silence. Nova blinks up at us, waiting. “Metal,” Nyla breathes from the floor.

Godslayers by  (Page 271)

:-)